Whenever I see a headline that says "California" in the title (like "such and such is surging in CA"), I doubt the credibility of the article.
For all we know, Governor Newsom has required hospitals to show COVID as the official reason for all hospital admissions or suffer the consequences.
California has become the nation's crazy aunt who sees prowlers all over the neighborhood. There's just no reason to listen because, if you do, you get infected with her insanity. And as we all know, insanity is very contagious.;-)
Whenever you see “California “, you can substitute “China” for it.
I just wonder how many of the million that died so far were Republicans. I definitely think that had a part in why we didn’t do so well in the midterms. We lost a lot of our voters to Covid.